8.05 pm: Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi called on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at the headquarters of the outfit here today and reportedly batted for respectable positions in new government for “sidelined” saffron leaders of his ilk.

6.20 pm: We have not got any piece of paper, we were just informed in the afternoon that none of the permissions will be given to us: Jaitley.

6.15 pm: The RO is being very economical with the truth. We have been informed that none of the venues will be given to us. He smelled a protest and probably backtracked. The alternative venue was not proposed by us as it can only accommodate not more than 2000 people: Arun Jaitley.

4.44 pm: Maoists burnt an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and a vehicle in the agency area of Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh during the polling for second phase of Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.

4.10 pm: BJP to protest against poll panel for denying Modi permission to hold an election meeting with the people of Varanasi. Modi was given permission to hold the meeting outside the city limits: TV REPORTS.

4.08 pm: About 47 per cent voting was registered till 3:00 pm today in seven Lok Sabha seats in Bihar in the fifth phase of elections in the state.

2.34 pm: “All those who are raising slogans of secularism are not working in favour of minorities,” Ramvilas Paswan said without naming any party. Paswan said differences between Hindus and Muslims have increased and this has happened because of vote bank politics.

1:04 pm: About 33 per cent polling was recorded till 11 am in Seemandhra on Wednesday with voters turning up in good numbers even as police opened fire in the air to disperse a group of YSR Congress workers who allegedly tried to forcibly remove a poll agent from a booth in Guntur.

12:56 pm: Moderate to brisk polling was reported during first four hours in Himachal with 18 to 25 per cent voters exercising their franchise by 11 am

11:32 am: AAP candidate Kumar Vishwas on Wednesday accused Congress workers of indulging in booth capturing here to save the prestigious seat, a charge denied by the district administration. “Booth capturing is going on at booth number 42 of
Mehmoodpur…,” Vishwas alleged on Twitter.ALSO READ:AAP accuses Congress men of indulging in booth capturing in Amethi

11:09 am: Over 11 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours in Uttar Pradesh, where polling is underway in 15 seats to decide the fate of 243 candidates including Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.